Leningrad Cowboys - These Boots

These Boots Finland / 1992 Director: Aki Kaurismäki Screenplay: Aki Kaurismäki Cinematography: Timo Salminen Editor: Aki Kaurismäki Sound: Jouko Lumme Music: Lee Hazelwood Cast: Mato Valtonen, Anu Frosterus, Kirsi Tykkyläinen, Jaakko Talaskivi, Atte Blom, Jouko Lumme, Leningrad Cowboys Producers: Aki Kaurismäki, Atte Blom Produced by: Sputnik Oy, Megamania Ky Duration: 5 min. These Boots tells "the Finnish history from 1952 to 1969" and begins with the birth of the main character (Mato Valtonen). This combination of a short film and a music video goes through the most important events of the main character's life: from his school years to marriage, from the daily grind of working life to the routines of farming and his father's death, ending melancholically in a scene where the main character gives up farming as it no longer provides a living. Members of Leningrad Cowboys play important supporting roles in the scenes that depict these events.